Short title: Elliot v Willis. Documents exhibited in court: Residence permit and...

Short title: Elliot v Willis. Documents exhibited in court:

• Residence permit and medical clearance: Amsterdam (1759). In Latin.
• Memoranda and account books, one with description in Dutch of a journey from Amsterdam to Antwerp (1759-1791).
• Business memoranda and correspondence, some relating to the diamond trade: London, Harwich, Hanover, Ostend etc (1768-1796). Some in German, Dutch and French.
• Miscellaneous business accounts and receipts: London (1769-1781). Some in German.
• Notarial instruments: Hanne, Celle, Germany (1769). In German and Latin.
• Notebook of personal expenditure, with some entries in Yiddish (1778-1782).
• Recipe for 'Quaking Pudding' (c 1780).
• Certifications of ships' cargoes: Venice (1781).
• Diamond correspondence (1781).
• Valuation of a parcel of diamonds: Lucknow, India (1782).
• Captain's report on the surrender of the East Indiaman Blanford to the French: Trincomalee, [Dutch] Ceylon (1783).
• Receipt book (1784-1785).
• Instrument of protest relating to the ship Olive Branch: Philadelphia, Penn, USA (1785).
• English translation of will of Anna Christina Nieuwenhuys. Transferred to EXT 9/69. (1786).
• Copy instrument of protest for the barquentine Falmouth: London (1787).
• Jewellery auction catalogue (1788).
• Affidavit: London (1795).
• Attorneys' bills (1799).
• Diamond inventories [18th century].
• Fragment of power of attorney [18th century]. In German.
• Account of the sufferings of the British at the hands of Tippoo Sultan. Missing (18th century).
• 'Bills of parcells and receipts 1767' (1767).
• Insurance certificate: London (1770).

See also C 111/147-160 and C 112/95-102

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EXT 9/69

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